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08/28/13 01:24 AM
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Hi Priscilla,
Jim and I will be on GONDOLA. We are arriving in Venice on the 27th for a few days of exploring on our own. Really looking forward to this cruise.
Mary Ellen
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 Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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08/28/13 03:10 AM
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So sad we will miss this cruise, but as things turned out, with the house going on the market in the next week, and our potential move to Williamsburg in Nov, it wouldn't have worked out anyway.
Sure will miss everyone, and hope its a fantastic cruise.
JoAnn 
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/03/13 01:38 PM
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Today, Pat & I had to cancel our Sept 23 Navigator cruise from NYC to Montreal because one of our sweet pooches must have eye surgery and wouldn't be well in time for us to leave her in the care of a housesitter in 3 weeks.  However, our wonderful Ngaire managed to switch us to GONDOLA (since Regent wanted our cabin on Navigator for the oversold NYC cruise).  We are still a bit stunned, as this has all occurred over the last few hours; but we are excited about the Venice to Rome itinerary and enormously looking forward to cruising again with such delightful people.
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/03/13 02:49 PM
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This is great news, welcome aboard Fred and Pat. Looking forward to sailing with y'all on Gondola.
Here to a quick recovery after your baby has her eye surgery.
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/04/13 02:42 AM
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Darn......as we had to cancel this and now our house goes on the MLS tomorrow, so we could well be in the moving stage.....so sorry to miss a chance to cruise with you two again, in fact we will miss cruising with everyone on this one, but sometimes the timing just isn't right. Sigh.........wish we could just go on them all. LOL.
Good luck with your pooch, hope she recovers quickly.
JoAnn
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/04/13 02:45 PM
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Poodle did fine this morning and is now back to her old blind self. Thanks for the good wishes. One of the big happy surprises in booking this trip at the last minute was discovering how many wonderful friends we would be seeing. Then we saw, sadly, that some had to cancel. It's been too long since we've had the pleasure to cruise with you, JoAnn. Pat
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/05/13 02:54 AM
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We feel the same Pat. Hope you guys have a great time, glad Poodle is doing well. So......sign up for PAGODA, thats our next one, a whole new area of the world for us, really excited.
JoAnn
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/05/13 04:27 AM
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Pat, so happy that things worked out for you & Fred and Poodle is doing well. Tom & I can relate since our little Daisy had eye surgery requiring us to change plans.
Sounds like a great group on Gondola.
Marcie 
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/05/13 05:23 AM
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Not that it really matters much; but the poodle's name is Misha, not Poodle. We are not quite so lacking in imagination as to name our dogs their breed names, although that would be easier. I should edit Pat's posts before he hits the Submit button, right?
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/05/13 03:21 PM
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OK so glad to hear that Misha is doing well. No Fred, you don't need to edit Pat's posts, we all got it. Or at least I think we did. LOL.  Just glad to know all is well.
JoAnn
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/06/13 06:57 AM
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I thought her name was Magoodle Poodle. The itinerary is fabulous. Wish we had the ports on the same day.- we have some of the Italy ports just a few days behind you on Riviera.
VOYAGER:
MC to FLL 11/07
MC/Dover 6/06
MARINER:
BCN / Ven 10/11
Alaska 2001|2006
Panama Canal 2003
NAV
Caribbean 11/06
Bermuda|New Eng/Canada 6/04
PG 5/05
OCEANIA
Nautica |Ist/Athens 6/07
Regatta|Baltics 6/08
Riviera 2013 Crossing -Istanbul to Miami
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/06/13 07:42 AM
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She's only Magoodle Poodle to her dearest friends, Kathy. Of course you and Frank are at the top of her dearest friends list.
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/06/13 05:29 PM
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A very interesting experience for us. We, indeed, booked late. Just tried to book P7 and S reservations. P7 is fully booked for all ten nights. And very limited options in S. We have no doubt we'll dine once in both alternatives. Several of the excursions we wanted are also not available. Not just wait listed but listed "closed." I'm not posting this to complain. We're just pleased to be on this cruise and will be delighted by whatever comes our way. But it is instructive to see how far in advance everything books up.
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09/08/13 05:55 AM
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ChatKat...
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The dates are the same as the Barcelona to Venice cruise we took two years ago where Park West had a group on and two nights of Signatures and Prime & booked for their own events. We could not get into P7 or Signatures on my Birthday. I wonder of it is because there is a group.
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MC/Dover 6/06
MARINER:
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Alaska 2001|2006
Panama Canal 2003
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Bermuda|New Eng/Canada 6/04
PG 5/05
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Regatta|Baltics 6/08
Riviera 2013 Crossing -Istanbul to Miami
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/08/13 07:14 AM
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A very interesting experience for us. We, indeed, booked late. Just tried to book P7 and S reservations. P7 is fully booked for all ten nights. And very limited options in S. We have no doubt we'll dine once in both alternatives. Several of the excursions we wanted are also not available. Not just wait listed but listed "closed." I'm not posting this to complain. We're just pleased to be on this cruise and will be delighted by whatever comes our way. But it is instructive to see how far in advance everything books up. Pat, I will be really interested in hearing your reports of how often you are able to get into Prime 7 and Signatures; I found on our last cruise I just needed to ask and was able to get in a few extra times. Same question for excursions; with what they are charging us for included excursions, I am interested to hear your experience with getting good excursions. Marc
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/11/13 06:30 PM
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Fred and Pat, I am slow catching up to this thread, and happy to know that we will see you onboard again! It has been a long time. Here's hoping your Misha is recovering well.
Priscilla
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/12/13 08:46 AM
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Cute pin! ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/iamtribble/2013/gondola.png)
Karen
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/12/13 01:18 PM
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Yallcruise
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So cute he is singing away!
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/12/13 07:40 PM
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The pin is darling! Good job, Ngaire and all.
Priscilla
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/21/13 08:55 AM
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I noticed a peculiarity in our itinerary, both as shown on the Regent website and in the final docs that we received a few days ago, regarding Monte Carlo and Portofino.
The itinerary indicates that we will tender at Monte Carlo, but not at Portofino. That seems exactly the reverse of what it should be.
On the official Port of Monaco website, Mariner is listed as docking at La Digue and is the only ship in port that day.
Further, everything I can find regarding Portofino states that all ships must anchor and tender there.
It appears that the little anchor symbols on the Regent itinerary are simply in error.
Has anyone sought clarification of this question from Regent?
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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09/21/13 10:13 AM
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A very interesting experience for us. We, indeed, booked late. Just tried to book P7 and S reservations. P7 is fully booked for all ten nights. And very limited options in S. We have no doubt we'll dine once in both alternatives. Several of the excursions we wanted are also not available. Not just wait listed but listed "closed." I'm not posting this to complain. We're just pleased to be on this cruise and will be delighted by whatever comes our way. But it is instructive to see how far in advance everything books up. Pat, I will be really interested in hearing your reports of how often you are able to get into Prime 7 and Signatures; I found on our last cruise I just needed to ask and was able to get in a few extra times. Same question for excursions; with what they are charging us for included excursions, I am interested to hear your experience with getting good excursions. Marc Ate at P7 and Sig several times by asking M'D - but was just ONE sharing. Cruise was MC to Rio last year.
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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10/01/13 09:46 AM
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Fred, I am catching up on this thread after being away, and I have not looked at the docs carefully yet, but I'm glad for your heads up on docking versus anchoring. I was hoping we would dock at Monaco and hope your info is correct. It never seemed right to me that we would anchor there. But for Portofino anchoring seems exactly correct. So ... my bet is that you are correct about the switched symbols on the itinerary. Hoping you are correct.
Priscilla
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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10/06/13 06:27 AM
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OMG I soooo love this pin and sooooo sad to be missing this trip. Maybe Ngaire will save us one since we were originally booked.
JoAnn
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10/06/13 10:13 AM
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21 more days before we fly out, can't wait. 
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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10/19/13 11:48 AM
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Okay, 10 days now to lift-off. Anybody to add to the roll call?
We leave on Oct 29, DFW-Heathrow-Venice. I am so very ready to get onboard the Mariner.
Priscilla
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10/19/13 02:05 PM
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Niki and Scott will joining Ngaire's crew on this cruise. 743 I think.
Looking forward to it. Leaving in a week.
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10/19/13 11:38 PM
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We'll have the pleasure of joining you on this cruise too. Our son, Christoph and daughter-law, Charlotte will be comng also. We leave next Sunday. It will be great to see you again, Priscilla! We'll be going through Heathrow too. Tampa-JFK-Heathrow-Venice. Will be a long day!
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10/20/13 05:45 PM
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Barbara, what great news that we will get to see you again! With our long travel days to Venice, we all will be ready to relax on the Mariner.
And Niki and Scott, we look forward to meeting you. This should be a wonderful cruise.
Priscilla
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10/21/13 03:23 AM
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Hey Niki and Scott! We sure thought thought about you guys several times on MARINER as we had some of our NILE 2 group onboard. I know you'll have a great time on GONDOLA!
Kim (& Alice)
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10/21/13 02:05 PM
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Hi Kim,
Enjoyed your pictures and posts. We are going to be stopping at some of the same ports. Would have been fun to see you, Alice, Mike, and Val.
Looking forward to our cruise - just a few days away.
Scott
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Re: GONDOLA Roll Call
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10/30/13 11:54 AM
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BON VOYAGE ALL YOU GONDOLIERS. Hope its a wonderful and amazing cruise. We will think about you everyday and wish we were there with you.   Ngaire sent us a pin though, so we are honorary Gondoliers.
JoAnn
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